The icecaps are melting and the ocean is swallowing the beaches — why would anyone spend hours in a dark theater enduring epically long flicks like The Dark Knight Rises or Prometheus instead of soaking in rays of sunshine??

Even with the release of the much-anticipated Cloud Atlas, it seems that Ben Affleck's latest directorial effort, Argo, was able to find its way to the top of the weekend box office!

While the ambitious Tom Hanks flick landed third with $9.4 million, putting it behind the still-making-bank Hotel Transylvania with $9.5, it still fared better than Gerard Butler's surf flick Chasing Mavericks, which didn't even break the top ten with $2.2 million, and Chelsea Handler and Victoria Justice's new comedy Fun Size, which just made it into the 10 spot with $4.1 million!

Not surprisingly, in honor of Hallowee-kend, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D also managed to debut to some SPOOKY SCARES, making it to five with $8 million!

We'll see if it can hold its momentum next weekend once the holiday passes, though!

Despite the fact that Tyler Perry - who for the first time is headlining the flick without any other involvement - is known to pull in big bucks at the box office, even HE could not challenge the money-making Paranormal Activity franchise's fourth installment!

The found-footage horror flick came in number one in its debut weekend, making $30.2 million alone, while Argo shot up to two with $16.6 million, Hotel Transylvania with $13.5 million, and Taken 2 down with $13.4 million!

This, of course, left Alex Cross with - to be fair - a decent $11.8 million, but proved that beyond Perry's core audience, no one was too innerested!

And why would they be?!

It's Halloween season, after all!

And between Paranormal Activity and Sinister for adults, and Frankenweenie and Hotel Transylvania for the kiddies, there just doesn't seem to be too much room for anything else!

We wonder if Liam Neeson ever anticipated that at the age of 60, he would be bringing in this kind of money as an action star?!

Doesn't matter! Because it is one helluva REALITY at this point!

The actor's latest movie, Taken 2, made MASSIVE BANK this weekend by pulling in close to $50 million and becoming the third-largest debut for an October release EVER!

Not to mention it doubled what the original made in that time period!

Meanwhile, the only flick that came REMOTELY close to making that kind of money was Hotel Transylvania, and with $26.3 million in the number two spot, we think everyone can agree that it's a bit of a stretch!

And now that Pitch Perfect's release has gone wide, it came in third and pulled in $14.7 million!

Check out the rest of the box office top ten this weekend…AFTER THE JUMP!!!

That's right, the Adam Sandler and Selena Gomez-voiced Hotel Transylvania broke box office records for the month of September by pulling in $43 million during its premiere weekend, which also made it the highest-grossing flick since The Dark Knight Rises!

Meanwhile, Joseph Gordon Levitt recovered from his last flick, Premium Rush, and its weak opening with Looper, which came in second at $21.2 million!

Not too shabby, considering it was only MADE for $30 million!

And even though it's only been released in 335 theaters, Anna Kendrick's Pitch Perfect pulled in $5.2 million, which averages to $15,560 per screen!

AH-Mazing! And so well-deserved!

Here's hoping that the buzz propels it to the top of the list when it gets released wide next weekend!